In a new episode of the Network AF podcast, your host Avi Freedman interviews Hank Kilmer, VP of IP engineering at Cogent. Hank has been running major internet backbones since the early 90s. He joined Cogent in 2011, and prior to that, held leadership positions with UUNET (now Verizon), Sprint, Digex, Abovenet and Terrapin Communications.

The peering coordinator’s toolbox is a blog series where we dive deep into the peering coordinator workflow and show how the right tools can help you be successful in your role.

When it comes to the internet, understanding the global ecosystem can be tough. There’s a lot of manual work that service providers and digital businesses have traditionally put into finding the best way to reach customers over IP networks. And more work is needed for benchmarking against competitors and finding the best relationships for peering.

The peering coordinator’s toolbox is a blog series where we’ll dive deep into the peering coordinator workflow and show how the right tools can help you be successful in your role. A peering coordinator is the person responsible for the way an IP network connects to the rest of the internet.

Didn’t quite get to that task of capacity planning in December? Well, not to worry, this month Kentik has overhauled our Capacity Planning workflow and is introducing a slew of new features to make capacity planning easier and more intuitive than ever before. Those who are familiar with Kentik will know that one of our core offerings is the ability to monitor and plan actual network and interface utilization.